Make safety awareness a priority: Use a login software in your research facility
Abstract
We report on a facility login software, whose objective is to improve safety in multi-user research facilities. Its most important safety features are: 1) blocks users from entering the lab after being absent for more than a predetermined number of days; 2) gives users a random safety quiz question, which they need to answer satisfactorily in order to use the facility; 3) blocks unauthorized users from using the facility afterhours; and 4) displays the current users in the facility. Besides restricting access to unauthorized users, the software keeps users mindful of key safety concepts. In addition, integration of the software with a door controller system can convert it into an effective physical safety mechanism. Depending on DOE approval, the code may be available as open source.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1344238
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1550606
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-113555-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1871-5532; R&D Project: 16060; 16060; KC0403020
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Chemical Health and Safety
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1871-5532
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; laboratory safety; facility management; Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Citation Formats
Camino, Fernando E. Make safety awareness a priority: Use a login software in your research facility. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.jchas.2016.12.002.
Camino, Fernando E. Make safety awareness a priority: Use a login software in your research facility. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchas.2016.12.002
Camino, Fernando E. Sat .
"Make safety awareness a priority: Use a login software in your research facility". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchas.2016.12.002. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1344238.
@article{osti_1344238,
title = {Make safety awareness a priority: Use a login software in your research facility},
author = {Camino, Fernando E.},
abstractNote = {We report on a facility login software, whose objective is to improve safety in multi-user research facilities. Its most important safety features are: 1) blocks users from entering the lab after being absent for more than a predetermined number of days; 2) gives users a random safety quiz question, which they need to answer satisfactorily in order to use the facility; 3) blocks unauthorized users from using the facility afterhours; and 4) displays the current users in the facility. Besides restricting access to unauthorized users, the software keeps users mindful of key safety concepts. In addition, integration of the software with a door controller system can convert it into an effective physical safety mechanism. Depending on DOE approval, the code may be available as open source.},
doi = {10.1016/j.jchas.2016.12.002},
journal = {Journal of Chemical Health and Safety},
number = 4,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Sat Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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